I play games from 1993 I started with console games my first console was a Atari 2600

I've been gaming since 1983 or possibly early 1984. Not quite sure.

Hmm. Sometime in the 1970's, I believe. First digital game I played was the original text Adventure ("You are in a twisty little maze of passages, all alike." ), on an anolog-modem/thermal-printer terminal phoning in to a Bell Labs mainframe.

First game played on a personal computer would be 1979/80, Ultima 1 on the Apple ][+.

There might have been an arcade game (Pong? Space Invaders?) or a game on someone else's Atari 2600 in between those, but I don't remember.

Video games specifically? My Dad bought a Pong game from Sears back around 1975-ish. I had a couple of Coleco handheld sports games (little red blips and a great imagination). My first PC was a Commodore 64 about 1987. That was quickly upgraded to a 128. I got my first console (NES) about 1989. My first Windows PC was about 1991.

All of those systems were bought for gaming

Gaming in general (board games, card games, etc), since 1969-ish, when I was 5

The first game I ever finished was American McGee's Alice, early in 2001. I'd bought other games like Tomb Raider and Half-Life before then but I'd never finished them.

EDIT: LOBdawgs reminded me of Pong. If Pong counts then I guess it would be my real first, in the late 70's. I spent more quarters on Pong in bars than I care to remember.

We got our first video game console in 1990. It was a Nintendo Entertainment System that came with Mario/Duck Hunt. It was a Christmas present for our kids but I started playing when the kids went to bed, and well ...

(I grew up in a small rural community where no one had video game consoles.)

mid to late 70's. i remember playing early computer games, but, have no clue what they were.

i remember pong, atari, coin-operated sessions at the local pizza joint (dang you dragon's lair!), all the space-invaders/asteroids/pac,etc.

then, it was things like combat, pitfall and all that console stuff.

wing-commander and my dad's joystiq, lol.

doom, dukenuke, descent.

blades of steel, nba live, madden and up as the years rolled on.

now, i get to watch my kids play games like TES!

About 1976-77. A lad up our street had a Pong machine. There were serious rations though, they'd burn the grid into a TV with too much use.

Late '70s I'd play the games at the arcades. Actually, no, I didn't, I'd go along with my grandfather and watch him playing. We'd also play the arcade machines at the local shops during school PE lessons: funny how the cross-country circuit always went that way.

My first video-game capable computer was a Dragon 32 that I got in 1982. Been playing pretty much regularly ever since.

Since 1989, NES.

I too would say in the (late) 70's. (Born in 71)

The corner stores had "old school" video (arcade) game machines as well as pinball. (I was no wizard, but ok!) All the neighbourhood kids would gather around the 2-3 machines watching each other have a go.

In the early 80's, my mom dragged me out of an arcade by my ear because I was skipping school. The arcade attendant "never" let me live it down. Asking "Are you supposed to be here?" when it was clearly after school for months to come. Then he'd laugh.

Ah, good times.

Since 1999. My father had a Sega Master System, NES and SNES. Used to play it a lot. Then he gave me a PSOne in 2002 and then a PS2 in 2004. Good times. So, 15 years playing video games.

(I bet my 4 yrs old playthrough was about me dying to koopa troopas )

I'm assuming also that you mean "video games". In that case 1979 with an Atari 2600 which I still have.

Rabbit

About 82 or do, First game I played was pong on the atari. Then couple years later we got yars revenge and that ruled. I think I may have played an original space invaders arcade a year or two before pong, but it may have been after. I was awfully young then. But it was an original one with the black and white screen with the color strip overlay on it

That was my first console experience as well. Though it was a friends and my uncles, as we couldn't afford to buy one.

Started playing around 78 or so (Atari). By the time the 80's rolled around I was spending more and more time at the video arcade blowing loads of quarters that should've been spent elsewhere, but I didn't care...and now I've got lots of fond memories of my many hours (sometimes all afternoon) there spending my allowance on something other than what I'm sure my parents intended it for.

Around 95-96, I stopped gaming altogether, aside from the oddball game I'd play at the bar once in a while. Bought my first pc in 07 and started gaming again. First it was COH, then I found TES and Fallout.

And that's about all there is to that story.

1985.
Atari and Colecovision.

My parents have a picture of me playing the NES when I was about 3 years old, I'm currently 20.